Chezzi Denyer breaks down in tears on 2Day FM

Chezzi Denyer was in tears as she relived the horrific things her husband did when he was taking strong painkillers.

Grant Denyer’s wife broke down in tears on radio as she relived the horrific things the TV star did when he was on strong medication after a serious accident.

Chezzi Denyer called into the 2Day FM breakfast show this morning as her husband and his co-hosts, Ed Kavalee and Ash London, discussed his 2008 Monster Truck accident that left Denyer with a broken back.

The couple had only just started dating at the time of the accident and Chezzi quickly found herself as Grant’s full-time carer when he returned home from hospital to recover.

Grant Denyer shattered a vertebrae into 11 pieces in the accident.

“The one thing that nobody ever tells you when you do an injury and the hospital never lets you go telling you, is that the medication is often worse than the actual injury itself,” Grant said on air. “The things it can do to your head … are so horrific.

“I’d hallucinate where I couldn’t tell the difference between dreams and reality. The moment you close your eyes you go into your worst and most horrific fears and when you wake up you don’t know the difference between that being real or not,” he said.

“I could barely walk. I would wake up from a horrific dream and go and try and find my wife thinking there was a home invasion and thinking that she was being sexually attacked. I would crawl along the floor to try and fight off attackers that just weren’t there.”

After a few months of being reliant on painkillers, Grant knew he had to get off them if he ever wanted to heal properly.

“We did it cold turkey,” Grant said. “And that’s an ugly process that can do a lot of damage to a relationship.

“You tend to say things that you do not mean because you have no control over the rollercoaster of emotions.”

Chezzi was in tears on air as she described how hard it was to help Grant get off the medication.

“The things that he did and the things that I saw were really horrific,” she said.

“I had to receive quite extensive counselling afterwards because he honestly believed he would never walk again and we had no real outside help. When we brought him home from hospital, I’m not a nurse, I didn’t know what I was doing.

“Some of the things that we went through would test any relationship.”

Chezzi and Grant at the 2018 Logie Awards.

Grant was audibly emotional as he heard his wife discussing the painful memories.

“I said things that I had no control over and I’m still humiliated and so mortified that I said them in those times of weaning myself off that medication,” he said to her. “I’m so forever sorry for it.”

Given their relationship was fairly new at the time of the accident, co-host Ed Kavalee asked Chezzi why she decided to stay with Grant.

Her answer was simple.

“I knew that I loved him,” she said.

The 2Day FM breakfast show is hosted by Grant Denyer, Ash London and Ed Kavalee.

Grant, Ed and Ash can be heard weekdays from 6-9am on 104.1 2Day FM